Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To plait or braid.
- noun A braid.
- noun A piece of land; a plot.
- noun A map showing actual or planned features, such as streets and building lots.
- transitive verb To make a plat of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay down flat or evenly; spread.
- Flat; level; plain.
- Specifically, in lace-making, flat and of uniform texture: said of the sprigs or flowers; hence, in general, noting the sprigs of bobbinlace, which are flat, as compared with those of needle-point lace, which may have relief.
- noun A beam or plank laid horizontally; a horizontal timber.
- noun A large flat stone used as the landing-place of a stair.
- noun The flat side of a sword.
- noun The sole of the foot. Compare
plant . - noun In mining, an enlargement of a level where it connects with a shaft used for raising ore, its object being to facilitate that operation, especially in mines where the ore is raised in kibbles.
- To iuterweave; make or shape by interweaving; wattle; plait. See
plait . - To embrace.
- noun A plot or patch of land laid off for or devoted to some particular purpose: as, a garden-ptat; a plat of ground.
- noun A flat representation of such plots or patches; a map or plan.
- noun A plan or design; scheme; plot.
- noun A plaited or braided thing; something produced by plaiting or interweaving: as, straw plat for hats; a plat of hair.
- noun Nautical, a braid of foxes. See
fox , 4. - Flatly; plainly; bluntly.
- Smoothly; evenly.
- To make a ground-plan of; map or plot; lay down on paper: as, to
plat a tract of land; to plat a town. - To strike with the hand; strike.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
- transitive verb To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
- adjective obsolete Plain; flat; level.
- transitive verb To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. The flat or broad side of a sword.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.
- noun A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
- adverb obsolete Plainly; flatly; downright.
- adverb obsolete Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
strike with the hand;slap . - noun online gaming Abbreviation for
platinum coins , acurrency used in themassively multiplayer online game Ultima Online. - noun obsolete The
flat orbroad side of asword . - noun obsolete, UK, dialect A
plot ; aplan ; adesign ; adiagram ,map , orchart . - noun A
braid . - verb To braid, to
plait . - noun A
plot of land; alot . - noun A
map showing property lines, especially as a legal document. - verb To create a plat, to lay out streets and building lots; to map.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
- verb make a plat of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Hi Patricia, good plat and according your plat information i thinking your plat will be able a good view. i trying to solved your problem. i replay again with an powerful client.
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While a councilor would ordinarily be immune from legal action pertaining to a vote he cast, F&M is arguing that approving a plat is a ministerial action, not discretionary or legislative, and therefore legislative immunity does not apply.
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While a councilor would ordinarily be immune from legal action pertaining to a vote he cast, F&M is arguing that approving a plat is a ministerial action, not discretionary or legislative, and therefore legislative immunity does not apply.
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A plat is the layout of houses, which needs approval from the village before property can be sold, Hatfield said.
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Two, they could opt not to do the assessment and place a statement on the final plat (a plat is a map of proposed changes to a piece of property) indicating that - although that only does any good if the buyer reviews the plans.
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The dam was referred to as a plat number under the common area included in closing paperwork for homeowners, but it was not explicitly referred to as a dam or pond.
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The actors were merely furnished with a "plat," or plot of the performance, and were required to fill in and complete the outline, as their own ingenuity might suggest.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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So they threw their plates against the jail cell walls - "plat," he says, trying to verbalize what that might sound like - and ate their dinner as it ran in rivers to the stone floor.
Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Wells 2010
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I often see a character spamming messages in the / advice channel between 1-4 times per hour offering services to PL players from 20 to 50 for "plat".
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To our utter astonishment, we discovered among the rocks a green plat of considerable dimensions, gay with honeysuckles more luxuriant and more odorous than even those which thrive so greatly in the climate of Andalusia.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
September 19, 2008